Big Life

{{Short description|Record label}}

{{for multi|the Night Ranger album|Big Life (album)|the song|Big Life (song)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}

Big Life was a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry.{{cite web|url = http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1033998 |title = Universal Music Publishing buys Big Life |date=2008-04-23 |work = Music Week|accessdate = 2009-04-06 }} It featured hundreds of releases from artists such as The Orb, Stare, Yazz, Junior Reid, Coldcut, De La Soul, and Damage.{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=1998|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0252-6|page=35/6}}

In 1999, the label was put into receivership.{{cite web|url = http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4611527-1.html |work = AllBusiness.com |accessdate=2009-04-06 |date=1999-02-13 |last = Jeff Clark-Meads |first = Dominic Pride |title = U.k.'s Big Life in Hands of Receiver}} In 2008, it was purchased by Universal Music Publishing Group.